Scope of Document

This document covers those htmlwidgets that are also on CRAN. The full list of these is available here: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/htmlwidgets/index.html

Currently covers:

Packages not yet on CRAN

These are pretty exciting but not on CRAN yet

https://github.com/ThomasSiegmund/D3TableFilter

What is htmlwidgets

A way to easily create bindings R bindings to existing JavaScript libraries, this document primarily considers the most established libraries utilising the htmlwidgets frameworks.

Creating Your Own

It is fairly easy, in fact here’s a guy that dedicated to build 1 htmlwidgets library a week for a whole year: http://www.buildingwidgets.com/blog/2015/1/2/can-i-commit

The following example allows us to create a GIF in the browser - which could be embedded into a Shiny app.

## Skipping install for github remote, the SHA1 (0434d23e) has not changed since last install.
##   Use `force = TRUE` to force installation

## Loading required package: htmltools

Recording Live ... (I'm editable)

Feel free to change me. Careful though it might be recorded in a GIF.

High Level Library Comparisons

Basic comparison of htmlwidgets libraries,

Chart Types

Generic Chart types:

note that “diagrams” means flowcharts and generic diagrams, for instance this periodic table created using rbokeh from http://hafen.github.io/rbokeh

Library URL	Charts	Scattergeo	Choropleth	Network	Diagrams	Time Series
Leaflet
dygraphs
Plotly
rbokeh

Explicit chart types

Support for Customisability

Can this section include notes on creating annotations etc, a la https://plot.ly/r/shapes/

Types of interactivity

## Warning in `[<-.factor`(`*tmp*`, thisvar, value = "<span class='glyphicon
## glyphicon-ok' aria-hidden='true'></span>"): invalid factor level, NA
## generated

Library URL	Scroll Zoom	Area Select.Zoom	Panning	Hover	Shiny Click.Events
Leaflet					NA
dygraphs					unknown
Plotly					devel branch
rbokeh					unknown

Map Comparisons

What kind of maps?

rbokeh

Features

Rectangle Zoom

Geomaps

## 
##  # maps v3.1: updated 'world': all lakes moved to separate new #
##  # 'lakes' database. Type '?world' or 'news(package="maps")'.  #